What are the responsibilities and job description for the System Engineer - 3 (Cloud Native Architect) position at Akina, Inc.?
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20-014 SE3 Cloud Native Architect
Description: As a Cloud Architect specializing in multi-cloud integration, you will guide teams in designing, evaluating, and implementing solutions across multiple commercial cloud environments. You’ll leverage deep understanding of native cloud services—compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and data pipelines—to help teams select and combine the right tools for each mission. This role requires balancing cost, complexity, and compliance while ensuring interoperability and maintainability across clouds. You’ll work closely with development and DevOps teams to architect resilient systems that perform seamlessly across AWS, Azure, and
other commercial cloud providers. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you’ll raise the
organization’s overall cloud maturity and enable smarter, faster adoption of cloud-native
capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Location: Columbia, MD
Salary Range:
$220k-$270k (Annually)*
* *The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
www.akina-inc.com/careers
20-014 SE3 Cloud Native Architect
Description: As a Cloud Architect specializing in multi-cloud integration, you will guide teams in designing, evaluating, and implementing solutions across multiple commercial cloud environments. You’ll leverage deep understanding of native cloud services—compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring, and data pipelines—to help teams select and combine the right tools for each mission. This role requires balancing cost, complexity, and compliance while ensuring interoperability and maintainability across clouds. You’ll work closely with development and DevOps teams to architect resilient systems that perform seamlessly across AWS, Azure, and
other commercial cloud providers. Acting as a trusted technical advisor, you’ll raise the
organization’s overall cloud maturity and enable smarter, faster adoption of cloud-native
capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Design and evaluate multi-cloud architectures spanning AWS, Azure, and other commercial environments.
- Develop reference implementations and integration patterns for cross-cloud networking, identity, and data flows.
- Assess tradeoffs between cost, performance, compliance, and vendor lock-in to inform technical direction.
- Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to implement cloud-native solutions aligned with mission needs.
- Create reusable infrastructure-as-code templates (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) to accelerate adoption.
- Provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to teams building or migrating workloads in multi-cloud ecosystems.
- Document architectures and share best practices to strengthen organizational cloud fluency and consistency.
- Solid grasp of computer networking protocols and principles.
- Individually motivated, self-starter, capable of understanding vague requirements and delivering novel approaches.
- Experience architecting solutions across multiple commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
- Deep knowledge of native cloud services for compute, networking, identity, and storage.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, etc.).
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and cost management tools across multiple clouds.
- Communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Past experience working with and understanding of the CNO mission.
- Certifications across multiple providers (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure
- Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Architect).
- Experience designing hybrid and federated cloud systems integrating on-prem and SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with DevOps pipelines, CI/CD, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, etc.).
- Experience and interest in mentoring and training others, sharing your expertise.
Location: Columbia, MD
Salary Range:
$220k-$270k (Annually)*
* *The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possible contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Akina is a Woman Owned, Service Disabled, Veteran Owned, Small Business, looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join our team. We offer a generous compensation package that includes 24 days PTO accrued annually and 11 federal holidays. Our 401k is 100% vested on your start date and the company makes a direct contribution worth 10% of your salary. Akina covers 100% of healthcare costs for employees and 50% toward dependents. We offer educational assistance towards college classes and will cover costs associated with job related training and certifications Akina is committed to excellence and creating innovative and flexible solutions for our clients. We are a small company with an open ear to our employees' needs in order to attract and retain quality talent that enables our customer's mission.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
www.akina-inc.com/careers
Salary : $220,000 - $270,000